A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.